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Graham: "I'm just numb. After you try to get a City Manager which the people picked...you feel pretty depressed...
...major reason is that Europeans accept tax bites that would numb Americans. Though partly warped by differences in purchasing power, some comparisons are enlightening. An unmarried German worker earning $5,000 a year pays about $1,500 in income and social taxes; a single American earning about the same pays $800. An Englishman who is married, has two children and earns $12,000 a year has income taxes of $3,257. An American in the same category pays $2,154. Europeans also pay savage excise levies: 400 on a gallon of gasoline in Germany v. about...
Aldo Cassidy, the pram king, is 36 years old and nice, but numb. His wife, whose frigidity extends beyond sex, calls him by nursery names. One day he meets Shamus, a wild writer and roaring boy, and Helen, Shamus' fine, warm wife. He falls in love quite innocently with the pair of them. "Gradually, with the aid of a third bottle of wine and several names supplied by Shamus," le Carre writes, "Cassidy formed a picture of this wonderful band of brothers, this few: a non-flying Battle of Britain squadron captained by Keats and supported by Byron, Pushkin...
...these days, bad news arrives thicker and faster than the mind can follow, or bear to contemplate. Often it seems that all one can muster in response is, at best, some variation on Hamlet's simple formula for mourning-"Absent thee from felicity awhile"-or at worst, numb weariness and futility...
...left jaw, my neck, and the left side of my chest were numb for a few days after Princeton," Hevern said. "But I thought I'd be all right by the Brown game...